Locked Up: The criminals jailed in Greater Manchester last month

A man whose out-of-control dog bit his neighbour's hand was one of the criminals locked up in Greater Manchester last month. Prison terms were also handed to a thug who deliberately smashed into a bungalow where an elderly woman lay sleeping in an attempt to take his own life.

A 'bodybuilder' who sucker punched a defenceless mum after escaping from prison was also jailed in our region.

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Jail sentences are handed out to the worst offenders each week and Manchester Evening News reporters are in court to cover the most serious cases.

Here are some of the criminals dealt with in Greater Manchester in September.

A vile sex beast who raped and abused two girls decades apart has been locked up for 18 years. Keith Bate, 73, finally faced justice for the horrendous abuse committed against his first victim throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, and against a second child in the 2010s.

Bate told his first victim, who he abused for about decade, that they were like 'boyfriend and girlfriend'. He was also violent, punching her and banging her head against the wall, and threatening her not to tell anyone about his crimes.

Bate, from Moston, broke her noise on one occasion, Manchester Crown Court heard. "She feared that he would kill her," prosecutor Peter Cadwallader said. The abuse, which she described as a 'never ending nightmare', left her depressed and 'suicidal'. She started drinking as a teenager and described herself as being 'off the rails'.

"By the age of 14 I had begun drinking alcohol, I was drinking excessively," she said in a statement read in court. "I also felt suicidal. It had an impact in my personal life, I have also had a lack of trust